will start with paula reid. let me air the bite from kamala harris really quickly. the comments made by the prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated. we will start with paula reid , how is the white house responding to the report today beyond what we heard from vice president harris? what do we know about the interview between president biden and special counsel hur s team. reporter: damage control, spokesperson answered question for the white house press corps. the one shepherding the press through the investigation and knows that well. he fielded questions including a lot of questions about the timing of this interview with the president. was he distracted ? the way the white house is spinning this, no, we did not want to delay it or put up roadblocks, we wanted to give special counsel everything they needed. there
partly because his memory is hazy, fuzzy, faulty and poor. there s an environment that we re in that generates a ton of pressure because you have congressional republicans, other republicans attacking prosecutors that they don t like. and it creates, you know, a need if you re going to determine that charges weren t filed, people are human. they re thinking through what do we need to do. you know, it leaves one to wonder exactly why he included a lot of the criticisms that were in there. president biden slamming the report and snapping back at reporters. i know what the hell i m doing. i m president. i put this country back on its feet. my memory is fine. while many americans are watching, they have expressed concerns about your age that is your judgment. that is your judgment. that is not the judgment of the press. he said his memory is fine but went up to mix up world leaders for the third time this week. as you know, initially the. of mexico, c.c., did not
see you in vegas. dana: good to have you back. no charges after a bombshell report finds president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified material. even worse politically it indicates biden s mental state is in decline using blistering words to describe his aptitude, important memory and diminished faculties. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. we start back there. bill: happy friday. a long one, huh? bill hemmer, good morning. special counsel report blowing open the national debate about the president s age. special counsel hur recommending against criminal charges in part because a jury might view biden as an elderly man with a poor memory, end quote. dana: even in the mainstream media the reaction has been harsh. they are no longer to ignore the age-old question is biden too old to be on the 2024 ticket? atlantic with a harsh headline. biden s age is now unavoidable. he looks like he is turning into a statue of joe biden. the im
also live in a world where former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things. so, for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you are also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process that. i talked about this a minute ago, and when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they are saying it s gratuitous, they are saying this is inappropriate, this is inconsistent with doj policy and practice, it s them saying. we agree, you know, you heard the president speak about this last night, and the vice president speak forcefully about this today, we a
biden s mishandling of top-secret classified documents from his time as a senator, vice president. they have now been made public. that report is beyond damning. by dinges tried to save face with the american public. it was a shocking display of his cognitive decline. we will play those outrageous remarks in a minute. let s lay out the details in this report. devastating. according to the report, quote, president biden woefully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. investigators found classified documents including notebooks from meetings regarding highly sensitive material on foreign-policy and national security carelessly stored in what appears to be his garage. and while what the special counsel found about biden s handling of classified documents was alarming, what it says about his cognitive state is quite frankly shocking. and by the way, it should have every single american concerned about the mental healt